Mirrors, Sickrooms, and Dead Letters: Wharton’s Thwarted Gothic Love Plots

Works cited

• Beer, Janet, and Avril Horner. “‘This Isn’t Exactly a Ghost Story’: Edith Wharton and Parodic Gothic.”Journal of American Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2003, pp. 269–85. EBSCO. 12 Nov. 2013. doi: 10.1017/S0021875803007084.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blackford, Holly. “Haunted Housekeeping: Fatal Attractions of Servant and Mistress in Twentieth-Century Female Gothic Literature.” Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 16, 2005, pp. 233–61. EBSCO. 12 Oct. 2013 doi:10.1080/10436920590946859.
   Google Scholar
• Blum, Virginia L. “Edith Wharton’s Erotic Other World.” Literature and Psychology, vol. 33, no. 1, 1987, pp. 12–29.
   Google Scholar
• Bronfen, Elisabeth. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. Routledge, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Norton Critical, edited by Richard J. Dunn, Norton, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Cox, Claire. “Edith Wharton’s Copy of ‘Jane Eyre’ Returns to the Mount in Lenox.” The Berkshire Eagle, 1 Nov. 2012, n.p.
   Google Scholar
• Crow, Charles L. “The Girl in the Library: Edith Wharton’s ‘The Eyes’ and American Gothic Traditions.” Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Popular P, 2004, pp. 157–67.
   Google Scholar
• Dyman, Jenni. Lurking Feminism: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton. Peter Lang, 1996.
   Google Scholar
• Elbert, Monika. “T.S. Eliot and Wharton’s Modernist Gothic.” Edith Wharton Review XI, Spring 1994, pp. 19–26.
   Google Scholar
• ———. “The Transcendental Economy of Wharton’s Gothic Mansions.” American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, Mar. 1995, pp. 51–67.
   Google Scholar
• ———. “Bourgeois Sexuality and the Gothic Plot in Hawthorne and Wharton.” Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition, edited by John Idol and Melinda Ponder, U of Massachusetts P, 1999, pp. 258–70.
   Google Scholar
• ———. “Wharton’s Hybridization of Hawthorne’s ‘Brand’ of Gothic: Gender Crossings in ‘Ethan Brand’ and ‘Bewitched.’” American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, 2003, pp. 221–41.
   Google Scholar
• Erlich, Gloria C. The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton. U of California P, 1992.
   Google Scholar
• ———. “The Female Conscience in Wharton’s Shorter Fiction.” The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton, edited by Millicent Bell, Cambridge UP, 1995, pp. 98–116.
   Google Scholar
• Fedorko, Kathy A. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton. U of Alabama P, 1995.
   Google Scholar
• Frantz, Jean Blackall. “Imaginative Encounter: Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë.” Edith Wharton Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1992, pp. 9–11.
   Google Scholar
• Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 2nd ed., Yale UP, 1979. 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Goodman, Susan. Edith Wharton’s Women: Friends and Rivals. UP of New England, 1990.
   Google Scholar
• Haytock, Jennifer. Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
   Google Scholar
• Hoeveler, Diane Long. Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës. Penn State UP, 1988.
   Google Scholar
• Jacobsen, Karen J. “Economic Hauntings: Wealth and Class in Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories.” College Literature, vol. 35, no. 1, 2008, pp. 100–27. EBSCO. 12 Oct. 2013. doi:10.1353/lit.2008.0010.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jirousek, Lori. “Haunting Hysteria: Wharton, Freeman, and the Ghosts of Masculinity.” American Literary Realism, vol. 32, no. 1, 1999, pp. 51–69.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaye, Richard. “’Unearthly Visitants’: Wharton’s Ghost Tales, Gothic Form, and the Literature of Homosexual Panic.” Edith Wharton Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10–14.
   Google Scholar
• Lee, Hermione. Edith Wharton. Alfred Knopf, 2007.
   Google Scholar
• Mattis, Ann. “Gothic Interiority and Servants in Wharton’s A Backward Glance and ‘The Lady Maid’s Bell.’” Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 58, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 213–37. EBSCO. 2 Dec. 2013.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Melville, Herman. “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street.” The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860, edited by Harrison Hayford, et al, Northwestern UP and Newberry Library, 1987, pp. 13–46.
   Google Scholar
• Murillo, Cynthia. “The Spirit of Rebellion and the Transformative Power of the Ghostly Double in Gilman, Spofford, and Wharton.” Women’s Studies, vol. 42, no. 7, 2013, pp. 755–81. Project Muse. 2 Dec. 2013. doi:10.1080/00497878.2013.820612.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Orlando, Emily. Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts. U of Alabama P, 2007.
   Google Scholar
• Schor, Naomi. “Introduction.” Indiana, by George Sand, Translated by Sylvia Raphael, Oxford UP, 2000, pp. vii–xxii.
   Google Scholar
• Seelye, John. Jane Eyre’s American Daughters: From the Wide, Wide World to Anne of Green Gables: A Study of Marginalized Maidens and What They Mean. U of Delaware P, 2005.
   Google Scholar
• Sensibar, Judith. “Edith Wharton Reads the Bachelor Type: Her Critique of Modernism’s Representative Man.” American Literature, vol. 60, 1988, pp. 575–90. doi:10.2307/2926658.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Expanded., Princeton UP, 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Singley, Carol. Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit. Cambridge UP, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Singley, Carol J., and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. “Forbidden Reading and Ghostly Writing: Anxious Power in Wharton’s ‘Pomegranate Seed.’” Women’s Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1991, pp. 177–203. doi:10.1080/00497878.1991.9978902.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith, Alan Gardner. “Edith Wharton and the Ghost Story.” Edith Wharton. Modern Critical Views, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 1986, pp. 89–98.
   Google Scholar
• Waid, Candace. Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underground: Fictions of Women and Writing. U of North Carolina P, 1991.
   Google Scholar
• Walton, Priscilla. “‘What Then on Earth was I?’: Feminine Subjectivity and The Turn of the Screw.” In The Turn of the Screw, edited by Peter Beidler, Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1995, pp. 253–268.
   Google Scholar
• Wharton, Edith. “The Writing of Fiction.” Touchstone, Simon and Schuster, 1924, pp. 1997.
   Google Scholar
• ———. Collected Stories, 1891–1910. The Library of America, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• ———. Collected Stories, 1911–1937. The Library of America, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Williams, Deborah Lindsay. Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Will Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Wilson-Jordan, Jacqueline. “Materializing the Word: The Woman Writer and the Struggle for Authority in ‘Mr. Jones.’” Memorializing Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture, edited by Gary Totten, U of Alabama P, 2007, pp. 63–82.
   Google Scholar
• Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton. Oxford UP, 1977.
   Google Scholar
• Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Harcourt, 1929. 1981.
   Google Scholar